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E Nose
E Nose
First of all I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our Alma mater,
Vimal Jyothi Engineering College that gave me such a great opportunity.
I am grateful to the Principal Dr. T.C Peter, as he is the leading light of our
institution. I would like to thank the Head of the Department of Electronics,
Mr.Jacob Zachariah for his advice throughout the seminar.
Now I would like to thank all the teachers of the college and my entire batch
mates for their support and encouragement. I truly admire my parents for
their constant encouragement and enduring support, which is inevitable for
the success of my venture.
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ABSTRACT
Until now, online communication involved only two of our senses, sense of
sight & sense of hearing. Soon it will involve the third, the sense of smell using an
e-nose. Digital scent technology is the main application of e-nose. With digital
scent technology, it is possible to sense, transmit& receive smell through internet.
There is complete software and hardware solution for it. When applied to
communications, scent becomes a new information channel. It allows us to
perceive products and irate a previously unimagined emotionality and product
credibility. Scents extend the myriad of multimedia possibility towards a new level.
Scent communication will be one of the most important information tools of the
future.
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 01
3. ELECTRONIC NOSE 04
4. APPLICATINS OF E-NOSE 07
DISADVANTAGES
7. SCENT SYNTHESISERS 10
8. AIR CANNON 13
9. FUTURE WORK 19
10. APPLICATIONS 20
11. CONCLUSION 22
12. REFERENCE 23
Seminar Report 2007 1 Electonic-nose
INTRODUCTION
Until now online communication involved only two of our senses, sense
of hearing and sense of sight. Soon it will involve the third, the sense of smell. A
new technology is being developed to appeal to our sense of smell. Bringing alive
our experience, technology now targets on the sense of smell.
If this technology gains mass appeal no one can stop it from entering into
virtual world. Just imagine you are able to smell things using a device connected
to your computer. With Digital scent technology this can be made a reality. There
is complete software and hardware solution for scenting digital media and user.
Odor consists of many different molecules, for e.g. the aroma of coffee is
made up of 20 various molecules. Nonetheless our nose perceives only 15 odors
which is enough to identify the smell as coffee.
At first the odor molecules reach the olfactory mucosa. The receptors for the
molecules are placed at the olfactory hairs. When the molecules reach the
receptors, an electric impulse is sent directly to the brain to the olfactory bulb.
Then the information gets to the olfactory glomeruli, a part of the olfactory bulb.
The glomeruli is able to associate the information to the intensity. The olfactory
bulb consequently processes the odor and can send the impulse to the olfactory
brain. We notice that we have a direct connection between our sense of smelling
and our brain. Those scent impulses reach the area of our brain that handles
emotions and memories. That explains the link between smelling and being
reminded of something.
What makes it even more difficult to construct olfactory display is that a set
of primary odors has not really been found. There was an attempt to define seven
such of primary odors but had to be extended to 100 odors. For vision, three
base colors are sufficient to display any color. Unfortunately this cannot be
applied to olfaction as our nose has thousands of receptors and apart from that
the odors are not orthogonal. That means you will not necessarily get a new one
by mixing two odors. Due to these big problems there is still research in
examining our scent.
ELECTRONIC NOSE
Sensing an odorant
to the array so as to remove the odorant mixture from the surface and bulk of
sensor’s active material. Finally a reference gas is again applied to the array to
prepare it for a new measurement cycle. The period during which odorant is
applied is called the response time of the sensor array. The period during which
washing and reference gases are applied is called the recovery time.
The sensor’s response is converted into electronic signal by using a
transducer and is processed by using the signal processing unit.
Types of sensors
1. POLYMER SENSORS
2. QUARTZ SENSOR
3. MOSFET SENSORS
These are based on the principle that VOCs in contact with a catalytic
metal can produce a reaction on the metal. The reaction products can diffuse
through the gate of the MOSFET to change the electrical properties of the device.
The sensitivity and selectivity of the device can be optimized by varying the type
and thickness of the metal catalyst and operating them at different temperatures.
The advantage is that they can be made with IC fabrication so that batch to batch
variations can be minimized.
The electronic nose has been used in a variety of applications and could
help solve problems in many fields.
ADVANTAGES
It can be used without fall over hours, days, weeks and even months and
can even circumvent problems associated with the use of human panels such as
individual variability, adoption, fatigue mental state and exposure to hazardous
material. The e-nose is a compact device and so it is portable and reliability is
very high. It can identify simple molecules which cannot be accomplished by
human nose. It can identify a smell objectively.
DISADVANTAGES
There are a few disadvantages to the e-nose technology which includes the
price.
The cost of an e-nose ranges from $5000 to $100,000. Another disadvantage
has been the delay between successive tests, the time delay ranging between 2
to 10 minutes during which time, the sensor is to be washed by a reactivating
agent, which is applied to the array so as to remove the odorant mixture from the
surface and bulk of the sensors active material.
The e-nose detects the smell molecules and it is indexed based on two
parameters. The scent is indexed according to its chemical make up and its place
in the scent spectrum. The chemical make up can be detected by the electronic
nose which otherwise act as the receiver. Like the color spectrum, there is also
scent spectrum and any smell will be the indexed smell of primary smells in the
scent spectrum. The indexed scent is digitized into a small file by olfactory signal
processing. This file is sent as an attachment to the recipient’s computer. At the
receiving end, there will be a personal scent synthesizer and air cannon. The
personal scent synthesizer reproduces the smell and the air cannon direct the
smell to user’s nose. The data about the smell is given by the digitally encoded
file which is transmitted. The smell emitted will be in the form of vapors.
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SCENT SYNTHESIZERS
Scent synthesizers are devices which are used to generate the smell in
accordance with the digitized file that is transmitted through the web. The scent
synthesizers are interfaced with our PC through a USB port. It can be
programmed or installed and it generates a small quantity of smell vapors into the
surrounding that is enough to feel the smell. All scent synthesizers will have a
removable cartridge which is used to mix different primary odors in different scent
synthesizers. Digi scent is the company which identified the most number of
primary scents about 128 primaries and they could create up to 1000 smells
using these primaries.
The personal synthesizers that produces the desired smell has a cartridge
inside it which is disposable as the chemical inside it wear out. Different types of
cartridges are manufactured according to the primary smells it can contain.
There will be 19 types of smell creating chemicals in the cartridge and by
using different proportions of these smells we can create many secondary smells.
The principle of operation of each cartridge is the same.
Anode
The cartridge use direct molecular heating or static heating technology. The
cartridge shown above has a container whose sides are made up of glass plate.
The electrodes can be arranged as follows. There is a common cathode which is
situated at the bottom. The container has 19 partitions and separate anodes are
dipped into each partition. The electrolytes taken in each separate partition are
chemicals which could produce the primary smells. The chemicals are either
derived from bacteria or from plants. These electrolytes contain those odor
molecules which could lock with the proteins triggering the neuron, which sends a
signal that the brain recognizes the smell.
According to the different anode voltages applied across each anode, the
electrolyte get heated differently and the heated electrolyte from each chamber
produces different volatile molecules in different proportions to give different
smells. The amount of heating is restricted by the current flow through the anode
which is in accordance with the data file encoded about the particular scent. The
different primary smell proportions produced by different chambers are combined
to give a particular smell.
AIR CANNON
One of the problems of olfactory display is that users would have to wear
something on their faces to smell the odor. The air cannon will help us to solve
this problem. Air canon is used to transport the scented air directly to the user’s
nose without the help of any head mounted device. The user and the air cannon
are standing in a remote position and the scent is aimed at the user. The distance
between the user and the air cannon is about 1-2m. The user can freely move.
The air cannon aim directly at the user’s nose. The odor will not simply diffuse
into a room. This prevents that everyone staying in the room from smelling as the
target person notices the odor. This way directed delivery of scent is provided
with a device that is located on your table, not on your head.
The air cannon consist of
1. Face tracker
2. Air clump launcher
3. Scent generator
FIRST PROTOTYPE
SECOND PROTOTYPE
A noise tracking feature is added in the Second prototype system. The system
consist of a camera, an air cannon, a set of control circuits and a personal
computer for vision based nose tracking and platform control.
A vision based nose tracker was used to detect and track the target user’s
nose position. After detecting the position of both the eyes, the nose position was
detected by searching for the brightest spot within the estimated region in which
the nose exists. Once the nose position was detected, the system traces the
nose position by template matching and finding the brightest spot.
An ELMO QN 42H micro CCD camera is used for image capturing. The camera
was placed just above the air cannon. The nose tracker could trace the nose
position at video rate, i.e. 30 times per second.
The detected nose position was then converted to the desired orientation of
the air cannon, which is fed to the motor driver. The platform that carries the air
cannon has 2 degrees of freedom and is equipped with a dc motor and a
potentiometer for each axis. The rotation speed was 60 degree per second for
pan and 75 degree per second for tilt when driven at the rated control voltage.
The outputs of potentiometers are used for position control at the motor drivers.
With this configuration, the air cannon could continuously trace the nose of the
seated user, even if he moved his upper body.
The design of second prototype is nearly equivalent to that of first, except that
the driving unit replaces the loud speaker used. This change was intended to
suppress the sound when the solenoids impacted the plate attached to the
rubber membrane. The scent generator is also same as the first. The operator
activates the scent generator before he launches the clump of scented air.
THIRD PROTOTYPE
To solve this problem, they attached a short cylinder with the same diameter
as the aperture of the air cannon and equipped with mechanical shutters at both
the ends. There are 5 holes on the surface of the cylinder for air intake and
evacuation. A tube is connected to each hole, through an air valve to a pump.
There is also a valve on the body of the air cannon for intake of fresh air.
The system is also equipped with 2-degrees of freedom platform and a CCD
camera. The pumps and valves are controlled through controller units that
communicate with the PC via an RS232C communication line.
The ATR Media Laboratories demonstrated this system at the ATR Research
expo. They succeeded in delivering different smells with each shot of air cannon.
Most the visitors could tell the difference between these odors.
FUTURE WORK
APPLICATIONS
E-COMMERCE
ADVERTISING
Vendors of food, cosmetics, home care products and travel related services
can use scent to make advertisements more engaging and memorable.
Eventually, like musical jingles and graphical logos, scented banner ads will
make it possible to communicate the key feature of scented products or to simply
evoke a certain feeling.
COMMUNICATIONS
EDUCATION
MEDICINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Scent will make music, movies and interactive games life like and immersive.
Scent tracks will be synchronized with movies, much liked musical score and
sound track, in order to create foreshadowing and to establish atmosphere,
mood, sense of place and character.
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE